Validation of Oxford Cognitive Screen: Executive Function (OCS‐EF), a tablet‐based executive function assessment tool amongst adolescent females in rural South Africa

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Short, reliable, easily administered executive function (EF) assessment tools are needed to measure EF in low- and middle-income countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa given the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated neurocognitive disorder. We Oxford Cognitive Screen—Executive Function (OCS-EF) 932 rural South African females (mean age 19.7 years). OCS-EF includes seven tasks: two hot inhibition tasks (a modified Iowa Gambling Task, emotional go/no-go) five cool tasks, switching (visuospatial rule-finding, geometric trails) three working memory (digit recall, selection figure drawing). performed confirmatory factor analysis testing whether a three-factor, two-factor hot-cool, inhibition/switching, or one-factor model fitted data better. The three-factor (switching, memory) had best local global fit (χ2 (11) 24.21, p = 0.012; RMSEA 0.036; CFI 0.920; CD 0.617). demonstrated feasibility administration by trained laypeople, tripartite structure amongst adolescent factorial validity this population context. tablet-based cognitive tool can be laypeople is valid for assessing cognition at scale adolescents similar environments.

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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Psychology

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0020-7594', '1464-066X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12764